A move has occurred! So many things have happened since this past fall. I will try to be brief. My sister Lori Ann had moved to Florida in the Spring. She had “walked” into a good job with the school system in Sarasota and her husband Gary thought he would be able to transfer to the area too with his job..time began to pass and his transfer did not go through. They felt that God was and is still in control, so Lori enjoyed her stay in Florida with her niece and actually like a sister, Vikki, who lives in Tampa. She came home in September as brown as a berry! Lori sure can tan!!..yes, we are jealous, ha! After she returned, I jokingly said, “are you ready to do a quilting business now?” and it went from there!

First, our thoughts were to go to quilt shows, craft show, set up and see what would happen and keep trying to get more longarm customers. My husband Gary and I visited Lebanon after labor day just to see her and enjoy some OSU football on TV….well, we began to look at Lebanon as a possible place to set up a quilt shop, noticing that there was nothing like that in town and that Lebanon offered quite a few festivals through the year and constant visitors to the Golden Lamb Inn, a historical building. My husband asked us if we would like to do a business together when Lori came over to Indiana to quilt and longarm for a couple days later in September….from there we started looking at properties and knew we did not want to go in “over our heads” to get started….one thing led to another and by November 6th Gary had purchased an old livery building (over 140 years old) to remodel, and bit by bit, use the building as a quilt shop. So, Gary and I traveled over to Lebanon every week for 3-4 days at a time to work and remodel the middle portion of the building and also use the back (then office area)….Loris’ Gary arranged through trading services with a crane business to have the winch removed and also other steel parts of rigging inside…at the same time my Gary was putting in windows and a door to that same side …a busy time..Lori and I wallpapered a little bit but we have mostly painted the rooms to show off our quilts and fabric and notions…we have had alot of fun too!!! … we were open for just a few days before Christmas and then closed for this past week to catch up on our lives and family and all that is transpiring…In the meantime, Old Glory here with the longarm has been able to do quite a few quilts for a Reprotextile business in Massachusetts. That has been very interesting as she has wanted to produce quilts that would be authentic looking to the 1740-1810 period. So, my Gary as inventive as he is, made a shell template for my stylus on the longarm and we are able to produce almost perfect 3 inch clam shell design on her period works. We even have had the experience of using wool fleece that she sent along with her naturally dyed wools and linens…so as they talk in the Little House books of Lindsey-Wolsey quilts, now I can say we have bonded with them. We must also mention that we are focusing on 1800 Reproduction fabric and also the 1900 Vintage era, along with tons of history with our quilt classes that are taught!

With all that has happened, Loris’ oldest son Matt asked his Joanna to marry him and they set the date for December 14th, just happened to be my Leahs’ birthday too…so we mixed in his wedding to setting up a new quilt shop on top of Christmas…hey, add my birthday and anniversary on the 27th and Loris’ anniversary on the 30th too..oh! Kirsten my granddaughter turned 13 on the 26th,her little sister Meg was 9 on December 1st too. Then, also add my husbands birthday November 16th and Leah’s two gals, oldest and youngest, Maddie and Caroline on the 10th and 14th of November ….in other words…eventful time I must say!!! “Alot goin’ on up here”! ha

Oh, yes, we did celebrate Christmas too! It was a sweet holiday! Leah came with her little gals and our son Kevin and his wife Mindy and little Cora enjoyed spending time together. Our son Steve is so far away but he and his wife Lori and kids Drew, Alyssa, Kirsten and Meg joined us for a little bit on video cam compliments of our macs.

The birth of Christ is such a refreshing time of remembrance of such a humble birth of our Saviour, such an unexpected although proficied way for our King to enter our “history” and eternal ways.

So, we will be offering classes soon and posting them on this web site. We still have longarming and that has not changed, our shoppe of fabric and classes are in Lebanon, Ohio…at 19 N. Sycamore Street…..the longarm is still here in Indiana. My Gary and I are now undertaking finishing the attic of the old livery into a loft apartment, so we have a nice place to live while at the shop and he is doing ER nursing working at the Xenia Er. Then, we will return to Indiana a few days a week to enjoy finishing the cabin here too!

So, keep checking! we should have it up soon!! Happy New Year Everyone!! Come and See us!!

So, God Bless everyone and soon we will be back on track and let you know what is happening at the new Olde Glory Quilt Shoppe!! Quilted Blessings!!! Karie and Lori